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random berlin observations thread

(tom scott voice) i am in copenhagen central station

i'm not the founder of a stealth startup i'm a professional revolutionary

you know how llms will overgeneralise their training data and start hallucinating/extrapolating stuff?

this happens to me all the time with emoji. the original set in ios 4(?) was tiny. i could remember what was and wasn't an emoji. but there's too many now, so i “hallucinate”

#wikifinds

jesus christ the cloud future is complete shit. i've clicked the link to go to a google drive shared folder, and i want to find a single file in that folder. so i type in the search bar. but that doesn't search the folder. there's no option to. what the fuck???

i still can't believe that the swedish agency for international development is officially named ”sida”. that's french for “aids”, the disease. you know, the kind of thing that an international development agency might want to contribute to stopping in, say, francophone africa

educating myself on swedish culture by familiarising myself with ”jazz på svenska”

oh, to be a slithy tove, who gyres and gimbles in the wabe! oh, for it to be brillig!

i think rust is great, easily my favourite programming language, and i agree with rust advocates on many things, but the sort of culture war-y way some people approach it gives me the ick, no matter which side you're on